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WACK 97.7 FM Nantucket

The calls are actually WAZK. 1.75kw at 210 feet will cover the island, but not much else. Jeff Shapiro used to be COO of Vox Communications, and now owns Great Eastern Radio.
 
I forgot to add that WAZK will in fact be on the Verizon tower that's also home to WNCK and WNAN. The two-bay Shively will be higher than both of those antennas on the tower.
 
Signal said:
This will be the new station to serve Nantucket. I wonder if they'll use the WNCK/WNAN site for their transmitter. I hope the signal isn't dogged, but it will have to protect WKAF 97.7 out of Brockton. Curious as to anyone's opinions about this.
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There are two Verizon microwave towers, the west and east tower. They are 1/4 of a mile from each other.
WNCK/WNAN are on the west tower, WAZK will be on the east tower.

Once WNCK upgrades and WAZK builds, I will have to go back to Nantucket. Darn. (Note the sarcasim, I'd love to get back there)
 
I totally LOL'd at the thought of a station having the calls WACK. Its just too easy...
 
Re: WAZK 97.7 FM Nantucket

According to Radio-Locator.com, WAZK-97.7 will have slightly less power than WNAN-91.1, but with it's antenna a little higher than WNAN's, I suspect it's coverage area will be pretty much identical to that of WNAN.

This will mean a very strong signal on Nantucket, a moderate signal in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard and along the shoreline of Cape Cod from Craigville beach to Chatham, a weaker signal on the rest of the Vineyard and areas of the Cape south of Route 6 between Barnstable and Orleans.

WAZK's signal likely will not be heard on the Cape Cod Bay side of the upper Cape.

The fact they signed on when they did was significant; I suspect their target date was to coincide with the start of the Summer tourist season, since I would think that all of the radio stations on the Cape and Islands see greatly increased listening during the Summer months.
 
radio1047 said:
The woman slurs the Z a little so it sounds like a C on the Top of the Hour.
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If you had said "slurs the C so it sounds like a Z," it would make sense to me (not from a call letters standpoint, but from a pronunciation standpoint). I don't comprehend "slurs a Z so it sounds like a C." Everybody (well, everybody who speaks English as a native language) pronounces the letter Z like a slurred C, not the other way around. I suppose WAZK could hire someone from the Czech Republic to voice their IDs. I think Czechs pronounce C like we pronounce Ch :D.
 
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